BermondseyBoy

Posts: 1,343 Member Since:18/ Aug 23 10 7:40 AM Picture of Staples Rents in Paradise Street an alleyway some 150 yards from Prospect Street going west in Paradise Street towards West Lane. The Booth Survey into life and labour in London 1886-1903; 1899 report said about Staples Rents; Staples Rents ...

(Yesterday & Today)

UD milkman delivering the pinta in Debnams Road to the terraced houses

Southwark Park Road (Yesterday & Today) spr1.jpg spr2.jpg Picture of Southwark Park Road looks as though it was taken between the wars 1920 period,the entrance to the park is on the right and as a child I remember going into the sweetshop on the right for goodies before going into the park two ...

(Yesterday & Today)

Storks Road when it was tree lined with terrace houses

Another picture for the collection Tower Bridge in 1900 a few years after the opening the horses had not yet been replaced by the motor vehicle and the reconstruction of the area had not yet taken place. Tower Bridge today apart from the traffic congestion it is still recoginsable. And the horses ha...

Spa Road Bakery I have beeen asked by one of the members of the forum about old photos of Bermondsey and have come up with the idea of " Bermondsey Yesterday and Today " My first picture is the queue outside the Spa Road Bakery in 1946. I remember queueing for bread in that period a loaf ...

Picture from the 1960s looking down Grove Street.jpg Picture from the 1960s looking down Grove Street, in the foreground we have the entrance to Deptford Wharf with the goods trains passing over the level crossing and next to this the entrance to the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard and in the dista...

With all the developments that are going on in the area, I thought it was time to look aoround at the fringes of the Borough and in particular Deptford Wharf just over the border from Rotherhithe. I sometimes wonder if the people who have paid some 500K for a property in the area realise what went o...

The Grand Surrey canal Authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1801, the Canal was originally intended to extend northwards to Rotherhithe and was 15K long. Originally named the Kent and Surrey Canal it was built during the 19th Century. It opened to the Old Kent Road in 1807 and to Camberwell in 1810...